In Spring 2014 thirteen artists occupied and developed work in response to 20,000 sqf of a deserted office floor in East India Dock, London, under the banner of HOUSERULES.

A space for spontaneous experimentation was created for both artists and audience.

HOUSERULES has since continued, unsubscribed to a fixed location, as a nomadic occurrence appearing in unexpected places.

HOUSERULES embraces indeterminacy; bringing, but also questioning, freedom, action and play into the context of a given space. Each particular location will come with its own set of ‘house rules’ and will be the starting point for each artist’s response through his or her own artistic ‘lens’.

HOUSERULES invites artists from various disciplines to contribute. The individual works take on a variety of media, including dance/movement, film, installation, sculpture, written/spoken word and sound, all coming together to form a temporary situation of creative energy.

Archivetag:houserules.co.uk,2017:/archive/2015-01-22T06:18:45+11:00

Hagetag:houserules.co.uk,2017:/archive/Hage/2017-02-07T00:03:47+11:00

For Location Information please email Nadia
HOUSERULES will commence 2017 with an extraordinary event at the Rabih Hage furniture warehouse in Park Royal. Rabih Hage is an architect and designer based in London and has very kindly given us permission to creatively explore his collection of furniture which occupies a unit in a transient community of industrials parks lining the Regents Canal. We are inviting creative fellows from disciplines such as fine art, drama, music, dance, security, performance, etc. to respond to this particular location and setting.
As always HOUSERULES approaches situations and places embracing each particular location, its limitations as well as possibilities. The event will take place on Sunday the 29th of January from 12-6pm.

On the occasion of the 2016 Artlicks Weekend HOUSERULES offered free guided tours by artists of various disciplines around Canary Wharf.
These were researched tours about particular aspects of this unique place. The artists chose anything that interested them and approached the tour through their individual artistic lens.

For the Artlicks Weekend (1-4 October) HOUSERULES is offering free guided tours by artists around the Rye Lane area in Peckham.
In the early Twenties Tristan Tzara, international promoter of Dada, travelled to Paris from Zurich to meet Andre Breton. What followed were a number of spectacles in the name of Dada.
One of those was the ‘Dada Excursion’ in the churchyard of St. Julien Le Pauvre. The event involved writers Tristan Tzara, André Breton, Philippe Soupault, as well as artist Francis Picabia. It took the form of the guided tour, but instead of leading a historical tour of the architecture and artefacts in and around the church, he guided participants around the churchyard which at the time was used as a rubbish dump.
It was not about art but about Life.
Dada = yes to life!
Participating Artists Include:
Daniella Valz-Gen, Jayne Lloyd, Ben Faga, Nadia Berri, Luis Ignacio, Victoria Burgher, Jeremy Lee, Yiman Lin, Jack Catling, Marcus Orlandi, Mirei Yazawa

the de beauvoir residenciestag:houserules.co.uk,2017:/archive/db-res/2015-10-21T22:49:40+11:00

The de beauvoir residencies are a series of residencies over the span of 12 weeks, during which 12 artists/artist collaborations will respond to and produce work in a wooden shed within a residential loft in East London.
Participating Artists for the de beauvoir residencies are:
Judit Ferencz, Ben Faga, Nadia Berri, Rejane Lhote, Kate Tiernan, Jeremy Lee, Yiman Lin, Tatiana Baskakova, Victoria Burgher, Natalie Marr, Jayne Lloyd, Marcus Orlandi, Terry Dynes, Daniella Valz-Gen and Lillian Wilkie.

After HOUSERULES' first 'gig' in 20,000 sqf of deserted office space earlier this year, 18 artists are now responding to and interacting with something totally different! An idyllic spot on Hampstead Heath!
HOUSERULES embraces indeterminacy; bringing, but also questioning, freedom, action and play into the context of an exhibition and the given space.
HOUSERULES invites artists to contribute, and the work takes on a variety of media, including performance, film, installation, sculpture, text and sound. Each particular location will come with its own set of ‘house rules’ and will be the starting point for each artist’s response through his or her own ‘lens’.
The participating artists on this occasion are:
Jack Catling, Titus Davies, Aaron Williamson, Flossie Catling, Elena Colman, Daniella Valz-Gen, Yiman Lin, Erifili Missiou, Tatiana Baskakova, Nadia Berri, Robert Brown, Victoria Burgher, Ben Faga, Matthew Hammond, Jeremy Lee, Jayne Lloyd, Kate Mahony and Cristina Pedreira.

From February 4th, 13 artists occupied the fifth floor of a largely unoccupied office building in East India Docks, as part of creative director and curator Caitlin Mavroleon’s ambitious project, OFFICE SESSIONS, in which various art projects activated 100,000 sqf of empty office space.
HOUSERULES was initiated by artist Nadia Berri, and the project was executed collaboratively with participating artists Tatiana Baskakova, Victoria Burgher, Terry Dynes, Ben Faga, Matthew Hammond, Jeremy Lee, Jayne Lloyd, Kate Mahony, Erifili Missiou, Cristina Pedreira and Daniella Valz-Gen and Rob Brown.
Over 42 days the artists engaged in the development of constantly evolving work for, and in direct response to 20,000 sqf of a deserted office floor. This particular setting offers great potential, while at the same time the ‘houserules’ of such an environment set out contrived boundaries: it is within this tension that the project took place.
HOUSERULES embraces the idea of indeterminacy within the restrictions of the 5th floor to bring, but also to question, freedom, action and play, in the context of an exhibition and also the given space. The participating artists work in a variety of media, including performance, film, installation, sculpture, text and sound.